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You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

the only way this works is if his wife shows up and takes over 98% of the show

don't worry the NYT had 320 entire words on it

You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.

If, as expected, Democrats sweep this election,the already growing movement in MAGA to repeal the 19th amendment will get louder. It's tempting to dismiss this as just talk. But while they can't just end women's suffrage, this movement is dangerous. www.salon.com/2026/10/26/m...

In 1987, esteemed professor Quandra Prettyman sent her daughter off to #college w/a MEMO offering astute #advice abt #money, religion, health, grades and more. Now published in @essaydaily.bsky.social!! www.essaydaily.org/2026/10/quan... Most likely written on her beloved typewriter! #Motherhood

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

Headline of the week

Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

Willing to bet Al will not 'increase the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, voters' but it is a sound bite meant to appeal to them: first blame immigrants, now women. The richest want us constantly fighting each other, so unhappy and socially isolated, they can 1/2

“Christian commentators in particular have a habit of talking about electoral politics as though it were a strange hobby or preoccupation of certain insufficiently thoughtful people, rather than a sustained negotiation over the acutest questions of human life.” – @philipchristman.bsky.social

This is the public facing UMC position on trans folks btw. Adam Hamilton is a knowingly dishonest piece of shit. how he can sleep at night is beyond me.

As I figured, Acton was telling the truth the whole time, and Vivek Ramaswamy remains the worst person. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

There’s an interesting, long, and often submerged history of diplomat’s wives sometimes being more successful negotiators than their husband, and while we don’t have to hand Melania Trump much, it actually might be the case that she’s a more effective peace broker than her husband

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

They’re not on Bluesky so you can’t tell from here, but the New York Public Library and the Manhattan borough president are currently locked in an incredible Elgin Marbles situation with the UK over Winnie the Pooh and advancing their positions via social media post www.syracuse.com/us-news/2026...

annual reminder that Doc's vision for the flux capacitor came to him when he hit his head on the sink after slipping off the toilet, confirming plumbing is at the center of the BTTF universe

max miller is in my workplace right now send good vibes i guess that i don't snap

"Win or lose, Vivek Ramaswamy will be the candidate who took a woman’s childhood abuse and made it his closing argument." Read more from Rick Wilson here: https://bit.ly/4dN6ka0

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

actual content of the story aside, this is very well written and well reported, and proves that there are people at the NYT capable of covering trans issues with both sensitivity and journalistic objectivity. interesting that this one came from the military beat.

Vivek Ramaswamy has been a horrible person in public for so long that until a friend reminded me, I totally forgot that I wrote a letter to the editor blasting his opposition to a living wage for campus workers more than *two decades ago*

"These bishops walked into the Oval Office knowing the cameras would roll." #PrayForAmerica #RebuildMyChurch www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pastoral-n...

minnesotareformer.com/2026/10/22/w... 👏🏻👏🏻

you can just ignore people

Vivek Ramaswamy seeks to take political advantage of the fact that his opponent was raped as a child. But to his credit, unlike many other Republican politicians, he was not personally the rapist in question.

JD Vance is defending the Vivek ad. A new low. www.thebulwark.com/p/jd-vance-i...

A romcom where a woman involved in the gruelling, protracted Madonna biopic bootcamp falls in love with someone involved in the gruelling, protracted James Bond bootcamp. deadline.com/2026/10/jame...

Love Josh O’Connor so much, but he should not be James Bond.

Toxic in My Pants

Wow! Amy Acton’s new ad is shocking. She’s talking about the issues Ohioans are concerned about and not trashing her opponent. To be fair, she doesn’t need to. Vivek already trashed himself.

The biggest danger to this administration is being a non-white person who is funnier and better at posting than them. That's why they're arresting this woman's family members for running a weed store two weeks before an election. She has the juice and that's dangerous.

Statement from Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas: “I will not be intimidated. I will not be bullied. And I will not back down.”

"If Putin is a humanitarian, then Dolly Parton was an axe murderer." I cackled.